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Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented for literature “that confronts racism and explores diversity.” The journalist and activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault was honored for lifetime achievement. Besides Brooks’ “Horse,” Chang’s “The Family Chao” and Jones’ “Alive at the End of the World,” judges also cited Matthew F. Delmont’s nonfiction “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad." Previous winners include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer and Zadie Smith.
The Cleveland Foundation on Monday evening, April 3, unveiled two winners in the fiction category and one each in nonfiction, poetry and lifetime achievement for the 88th annual awards, which are the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity.